Red pressed his Cutlass into a dive just as a pair of blast torpedo detonated in the space where he had been moments ago. He immedeatly hit his reverse thrusters and swung his craft around to face his attacker, a Poseiden.

Routine patrol my ass, he thought as he sent a pair of plasma rockets screaming at the Posiden quickly followed by two more. He and his wingmate had been sent out to patrol around some of the outer sectors of Bora space. When he voiced his concerns that a pair of Cutlasses would be out-gunned if they ran into oppisition they dismissed his fears saying that it was simple a routine patrol with little danger of ecountering any Spanners.

The first pair of rockets slammed into the enemy ship's shields, efectively dropping them. And that spelled doom for the weak hull spanner ship. The second set of rockets tore into the ships hull and detonated. The resulting blast nearly tore the ship in half, it did serve to put it out of the action as it drifted listlessly in space.

He turned his ship to face the remaining enemies and his blood ran cold. A Galspan frigate had just jumped into the sector and brought with it a dozen new fighters including Pegasi and ArchAngels. There was no way a lone pair of Cutlasses could defeat such overwhelming odds.

"Alright Alex, if we're gonna go down than lets take some of them bastards with us!" Red yelled, "Die corper scum!"

As skilled as they were they both knew that victory was not possible but if they took down enough spanners it would prevent this group from accomplishing whatever mission they had come to do and help the Bora Coalition that much more. They burned into the fray with guns blazing...

A week later a Bora destroyer detected anomalous readings in a section of space near their path of travel. Upon reaching the source of these readings they found the shattered hulk of a Galspan firgate along with the drifting remains of hulled fighters. Among these fighters were a pair of cutlasses, so damaged as to be almost unidentifiable, further scans showed their rocket launchers were still cycling trying to relaod rounds that were not there. Noone ever knew exactly what happened. Bora teams picked up the remains of the Cutlasses and did some scans of the Spanner ships. The only thing they were able to retrieve was a damaged orders log from a small shuttle painted in Bora colors from inside the Spanner frigate. Only a few words remained, "Operat--n Argoso 2" -----Freedom station-- delive-- dest--y...